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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78566	A brief apology in behalf of the people in derision call'd Quakers. Written for the information of our sober and well-inclined neighbors in and about the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts. by Will. Chandler, Alex. Pyott, Jo. Hodges, and some others.	Chandler, William.; Pyott, Alex. (Alexander); Hodges, Joseph.	1693 (1693)	Wing C1934; ESTC R229320	34,744	78

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Phil 2. 12 13. us with a vigilant attention to and co-working with that Grace which to that end is given work out our Salvation with a reverend fear since a good degree of attainment herein is soon lost except there be a constant sedulous watchfulness upon the Mind amidst all business and concerns to have a check upon our words and thoughts and a diligent pressing forward For while Mat. 26. 41. we live in this World we are liable to temptations and may enter thereinto also without a strict care and watchfulness our Senses presenting many baits to our Minds on every hand which Satan makes use of to beguile and many provocations offer themselves in 2 Cor. 12. 9. our Pilgrimage against all which God's Grace is sufficient Armour as our Minds are seasoned by it so that where any shortness is 't is through Insincerity Negligence or Inadvertency Or is it a dangerous heinous Heresie that we with very many Professors of Christianity believe the Universality of Ps 145. 9. the Love of God to all Mankind that God who is good to all whose Mercies extends to all the Works of his Hands is sincere in his Intention and Attestation thereof and doth not design to delude Ezek. 33. 11. 18. 23. us when he affirms That as certainly as he lives he desires not the death of a sinner but rather that he would return and live that God whose Love and Mercy is unlimited doth graciously and John c. 3 v. 14 15 16 17. Isai 55. 1 Rev. 22. 17. Rom. 5. 18 generously offer Salvation through Jesus Christ upon certain Conditions to be performed on our part to all Mankind to every individual Man and Woman upon the face of the Earth which is the true Gospel-message good Tydings Luke 2. 10 14. of great Joy which shall be to all People Peace on Earth and good will towards Men good cause indeed to rejoyce that all are within the verge Isa 55. 7. Ezek. c. 18 v 21 22 to the end of Mercy and free Pardon that God is indeed no Respecter of Persons but among all Nations and People he or she that fears him and works Righteousness is Acts 10. 34 35. 1 Joh. 2. 2. Heb. 2. 9. of him accepted and that Christ dyed for the sins of the whole World yea for every Man surely then all for whom he dyed are thereby put into a capacity for Salvation that saving Tit. 2. 11. Grace hath appeared to all Men and a 1 Cor. 12. 7. See Pro. c. 1. from v. 20. to the end manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Man to profit withal And that none are reprobated but those that continue to be deaf to the Calls of this Grace and resists the Spirit and hides and neglects their Talents till the day Mat. 23. 37. of their Visitation be over and Christ so withdraws himself as to cease longer to strive with them so that the Neh. 9. 20 26. means being taken away they are left to themselves and given up to Hardness Isa 63. 10. Psal 81. v. 11 12 13. of Heart that being absent that should prepare tender and mollifie it that now they cannot Repent Believe and be Converted If thus to believe be a dangerous and pernitious Errour we confess we are Guilty and not like to be otherwise for we cannot perswade ourselves to embrace that Anti-evangelical Opinion That God from all Eternity hath personally and conditionally without respect to their accepting or rejecting the Salvation offer'd in Christ elected some and reprobated others by an immutable Decree so that those who are so elected shall certainly be saved let them do what they will for God's Decree can't be reverss'd let the unstable Mind of Man vary as it will and those that are reprobated were in effect damned thousands of Years before they were born so that their Salvation is put beyond all hope let them seek it never so earestly and diligently and be never so desirous to serve and please God For besides that this sad Tidings instead of glad Tidings if it were really true in itself puts an end to the whole business of Religion by rendring all Worship and Devotion all Preaching Praying Assembling together and Holy Living as 't were useless by invalidating all whatsoever on Man's part as nothing contributing as a necessary Condition on his part to be performed or neglected towards his Salvation or eternal Destruction We dare not take up an Opinion so diametrically opposite to the very Attributes of God and his repeated Protestations to the contrary and with some Men thus presume to arraign his Justice Mercy and Goodness we cannot believe that God who is Love itself and Goodness itself and hath always manifested a wonderful Care and Concern for Man as his darling Creature VVis 12. 15 16. it being disagreeable to his Power to condemn those that have not deserved to be punished and having no pleasure in the death of him that dies Ezek. 18. 22. VVis 11. 23 24. should yet make the major part of Mankind with design to damn them unprovok'd thereto without ever tendring them Salvation or that he would make the far greater number wholly uncapable of accepting the Salvation tendred them by putting it out of their power to perform those Conditions and Terms upon which he offers it and then condemn them to eternal Misery for not complying with those Conditions that 't was impossible for them to observe For he don't only call to all the ends of Isai 45. 22. the Earth which implies all Mankind to look to him and be saved but he hath given to every one a Portion of his Spirit to enable them so to do he hath not only sent forth the Son of his Love Joh. 3. 14 15 16. to shed his Blood for every Man to be lifted up as Moses lifted up the Brazen Serpent that whosoever believeth in Joh. 6. 44 45. him should not perish but he also draws them and as they will receive it toucheth them with that Divine Magnet that only can incline and impower them effectually to turn to that Pole in which all our true Happiness centers But this is the condemnation that Joh. 3. 19 20. light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because Eph. 5. 13. their deeds are evil and hates the light and will not bring their deeds to it lest it should reprove them for whatsoever is reprovable is made manifest by the light but men love their own broad ways to pursue the sight of their eyes and desire of their minds and Eccl. 11. 9. therefore hate to be control'd therein and reform'd The Apostle stirring up the Ephesians to Purity of Life and to avoid several Evils there mentioned saith expresly Let no man deceive you Eph. 5. 6 7. with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of